Federal Reserve Board (FRB) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Case Logs 2016-2019
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Description of document: Federal Reserve Board (FRB) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Case Logs 2016-2019 Requested date: 13-November-2020 Release date: 23-November-2020 Posted date: 11-January-2021 Source of document: Information Disclosure Section Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System 20th & Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20551 Fax: (202) 872-7565 Electronic Request Form The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is a First Amendment free speech web site and is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. 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Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA"), 5 U.S.C. § 552, you request: [a] copy of the Federal Reserve System/Board FOIA Logs for each of the years 2010 to 2019, or else logs for whichever of those years are readily retrievable by the Fed's FOIA office. 1 With respect to this interim response, staff searched Board records and located documents responsive to your request for 2017, 2018, and 2019. With respect to this interim release, your request is granted in full. The Board's Information Disclosure Section will provide you with a copy of the documents being made available to you pursuant to this interim response under separate cover. While this interim response does not detail your appeal rights, in our final response letter, the Board will provide information about your right to appeal any withheld information from either this interim release or the Board's final response. 1 In a telephone conversation and follow-up email with Ms. Meredith Scheiber of the Board's Information Disclosure Section on November 17, 2020, you confirmed that you will accept previously released records for 2017, 2018, and 2019. You also stated that you would like the Board to process your request for records from 2010 through 2016. 2 We are continuing to review documents potentially responsive to your request and will provide a final determination as quickly as possible. 2 Very truly yours, Michele Taylor Fennell Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board 2 If you have any questions regarding the processing of your FOIA request, you may contact the Board's FOIA Public Liaison, Ms. Candace Ambrose, at (202) 452-3684 for assistance. FOIA Description Date Disposition First Last Organization Number Received Name Name F-2017- A copy of the nonpublic guidance issued by the Federal Reserve Board on 1/3/2017 Full Denial - 00071 November 3, 2009 regarding SCAP (Supervisory Capital Assessment Exemption 8 Program) institutions. "Non-public guidance issued by FRB on November 3, 2009, and agreed to by the other regulators and Treasury, added a provision that would allow these SCAP banks to repay on an expedited basis." (SIGTARP). Discussed here: https://www.sigtarp.gov/ Audit%20Reports/Exiting_ TARP _Repayments_by_ the_Largest_Financial_lnstitutions.pdf F-2017- name, title, and work email and mailing address for persons in the following 1/5/2017 Full Grant Karen Troutman Dewey 00072 positions in the Federal Reserve Board: 1. Human Relations Directors 2. Civil Publications, Inc. Rights Directors 3. Equal Employment Opportunity Directors 4. Labor Relations Directors 5. Workers Compensation Directors 6. Training Directors 7. Within Personnel Offices/Employee Relations Offices/Labor Relations Offices a. Chiefs of Staffing/Classification b. Chiefs of Labor Relations c. Chiefs of Employee Relations 8. Within General Counsel Offices, Assistant or Deputy General Counsels for: i. Litigation ii. Administrative Law iii. EEO/Civil Rights iv. Labor and Employment Law 9. Chief Equal Employment Opportunity Counselors F-2017- all records pertaining to the change in control of Metropolitan Bank Group, 1/6/2017 Full Grant John Scolnik United Food & 00073 Inc., Chicago, Illinois, now known as Byline Bancorp: any and all Commercial attachments, exhibits, notes, addenda, updates, or any other record that Workers otherwise modifies, supersedes, or nullifies any responsive record in whole International or in part. Union FOIA Description Date Disposition First Last Organization Number Received Name Name F-2017- investigation conducted by the Federal Reserve of Wells Fargo & Company 1/9/2017 Full Denial - Annie Kouba Motley Rice 00074 (Wells Fargo): 1. All records concerning correspondence (including letters, Exemption 7A, emails, and any other electronic means) between and among any agent or 7E, 8 representative of the Federal Reserve and any representative of Wells Fargo; 2.All records concerning the Federal Reserves investigation into Wells Fargo's misconduct as it relates to the aforementioned wrongdoing as discussed before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs on September 20, 2016; and 3. All records concerning the Federal Reserves investigation into Wells Fargo's misconduct as it relates to the aforementioned wrongdoing as discussed before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on September 29, 2016. F-2017- Any and all records sent from the Federal Reserve between May 1, 2016 1/11/2017 Full Denial - Ryan Felton Jalopnik 00075 and September 1, 2016 to several banks that helped arrange a $1.15 billion Exemption 8 loan for Uber Technologies. According to a report from Reuters, "The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which are trying to reign in risky lending across Wall Street, took issue with the way in which the banks carved out Uber's more mature operations from the rest of the business ..." I'm requesting access to any letters or memos sent to banks involved in the deal, including but not limited to Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Barclays PLC and Citigroup. F-2017- Any documents, stop codes, transaction stop codes on default judgments 1/13/2017 Not Reasonably Todd Foreman 00076 or returned payments, coordination with judiciary (also known as the Office Described of the Administration of the courts), The Court, information, communications within the Federal Reserve pertaining to (b) (6) (b) (6) , (b) (6) , (b) (6) , (b) (6) , (b) (6) , (b) (6) , (b) (6) , USA, United States, it's territories and also containing social security number (b) (6) . FOIA Description Date Disposition First Last Organization Number Received Name Name F-2017- First, any and all notices, applications, or other materials submitted to the 1/19/2017 Full Denial - Helen Clark 00077 Board or any Reserve Bank by BlackRock, Inc. or any of its affiliates or Exemption 4, 8 subsidiaries (together, BlackRock) under the Change in Bank Control Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1817(j), or the Bank Holding Company Act, 12 U.S.C. § 1841 et seq., seeking the approval or non-objection of the Board or any Reserve Bank to acquire or retain 10 percent or more of any class of voting securities of one or more bank holding companies where the notice or application may have taken either of the following forms: (a) A notice or application identifying one or more bank holding companies by name; or (b) A notice or application that has permitted, or would permit in the future, BlackRock to acquire 10 percent or more of any class of voting securities of any or all bank holding companies (whether or not the entities were identified in the filing) without further application or notice to the Board or any Reserve Bank. Second, any approval or non-objection letters issued by the Board or any Reserve Bank, and any commitments, including but not limited to passivity commitments, entered into by BlackRock, in connection with any notice or application described above. F-2017- The nonconfidential portions of the related correspondence up through the 1/19/2017 Withdrawn Tim Byrne Shearman & 00078 time that the application was by ABLV NV (Latvia) to establish a Sterling LLP representative office in New York was withdrawn (Dec. 18, 2015). In addition, the application submitted to the Federal Reserve Board included a copy of the application that was submitted to the New York State Department of Financial Services. I am also requesting a copy of the public portions of that document. F-2017- all Interagency Bank Merger Applications (items 1-14) submitted to the 1/19/2017 Withdrawn Alice Jun Kellogg School of 00079 Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from years 1999 to Management present. A subset of the information requested items 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12. FOIA Description Date Disposition First Last Organization Number Received Name Name F-2017- the range of the salaries for members of the board of directors of the 1/19/2017 Directed to Jo Jones 00080 Oklahoma City branch of the Federal reserve bank of Kansas City Mo.